Truth Explained: All You Want To Know About Freedom 251! The World's Cheapest 3G Smartphone

"Have you read about the news saying Freedom 251 3G Smartphone is selling at a whooping price of Rs 251/- today" said to me by my friend via WhatsApp. He even asked me to buy a piece for him and 3 for his uncle and his family too! 

On hearing this, I was like kind of "Huh! A 3G Smartphone in Rs 251/- Only" Without wasting my time, I started reading about the thing going in the Indian markets online as well as offline. Yes, there is a company naming Ringing Bells who has launched this phone today at a price of Rs 251/- but the tale of twist is the delivery time. According to their website the delivery of the phone will be done at around 30th of June 2016. This thing made me to research a bit more as there was a complete fiasco in the company's strategy of selling a smartphone at the price of Rs 251/- and moreover the delivery was after 6 months. 

The Smartphone is whooped with a 4" qHD IPS Display, a 1.3 GHz Quadcore Processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB Internal Storage (Expandable Upto 32 GB via External SD Card), 3.2 MP AF Rear and 3 MP Front Camera, 1450 mAh Battery and all these things are coupled in a box having Charger, Earphone and an OTG Cable!

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The Phone is launched today by the company's officials and many other people at a launching event organized by the company. The Phone is launched itself by Defense Minister Mr. Manohar Parrikar in New Delhi.

Launching of Freedom 251 Smartphone by Manohar Parrikar (Defense Minister)

When I visited the site myself to buy this phone, the website was really found to be choppy really as a snail developed to look like a butterfly. The company Ringing Bells that is launching this phone is showing nothing about themselves and even they are not showing any detailed information about where there office is and what they sell or there previous products or anything. Many big websites like Mashable, Gizmodo and others had written content about this phone but all was in vain as the product can't be sold for this price and the advertisement being done is all fake.

The photos and icons images of the smartphone suggests that it is using Apple's iOS like User Interface and thus if found true, will be surely landing into trouble into copyright infringement case. Moreover by paying more attention towards the curves and style of the smartphone, it looks somewhat like the remake of very old smartphone launched by Adkom, naming Adkom ikon 4 that was priced at 3.5 - 4K.

For those people, who think this to be a Government of India's Initiative as it is having some heavy words attached with its promotion and advertising like Digital India, Make in India, Skill India then let me clear you all guys, this is not! By any means, this is clearly not a Government's Initiative.

Then the question arises about why these people are giving this 3G smartphone with so many features for a mere price of Rs 251/- only. Even you guys also know the thing that If we were in need of an original Samsung's smartphone's battery, then it would cost us around Rs 450 - 500/- but this wholesome mobile with so many features is selling at just Rs 251/-.

Selling a smartphone at this cutthroat price of Rs 251/- will not give any kind of profit to the company and nor it will serve the purpose of the cost of the things used to make it. A smartphone made with these features will cost around Rs 1000/- (When a whooping subsidies are provided on every material being used) or even a 500 more. Let us assume, the phone will be coming as the result of a collaboration between any telecom company like iPhone used to do collaboration with telecom company's in US and UK and other countries to provide iPhone under low prices. Maybe Ringing Bells had collaborated with an Indian telecom company and is releasing this phone in such a cheap price but there is no official news by the company about any kind of collaboration or partnership with any company! Then the question arises about how the company is able to provide this mobile in Rs 251/- only?

Maybe they will probably invest all the money, make profits over period of 6 - 8 months, (as they claim to deliver the product in 5 - 6 months) and may later give money back to those who ask for it. A significant percentage will just forget it. 

What happened in the case of Akash Tablets, where thousand of people got it and lakhs of people were refused to give it and were stated some technical problems and after some months, the people forget it and the thing is now the news of old time wine.

The thing that brings doubt in the mind is the review given by Hindustan Times today morning. According to HT, Company had sent a device for testing and reviewing to Hindustan Times and after reviewing it. HT said that the device that was sent to them by the company is a shameful hot mesh. It is having the combinations of many smartphones available today in the market. HT claimed that the device sent to them by the company for the trial was entirely different with the device that is shown in the newspaper.

Device Sent to Hindustan Times for Review by Company

Image Printed on the Newspaper Ad

These things are not even enough for this Star Smartphone. Things were gone more bizarre, the phone that was given to Hindustan Times was of different Brand name, and the brand name was Wiped Out by someone and over it, the name Freedom 251 was printed. The brand name that was wiped out was read to be as of Adcom! Adcom is an IT product importer from Delhi and they said that they have nothing to do with Ringing Bells.

Nikhil Dhawan from Tech World Media Pvt. Ltd. said that there is no need to pre-order anything coming from unknown sources. Just follow a simple rule, "Don't Order anything Pre-Order when the thing is selling from an unknown source. Only buy and order a thing if it is from trusted sources like Snapdeal, Amazon etc otherwise most of the times, you will have to face disappointment and there will be a loss of both time and money.

So What Exactly is this Going On...? Do You Have Any Clue? Comment Your Views..

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